Conduction

ahd-5
  • noun. The transmission or conveying of something through a medium or passage, especially the transmission of electric charge or heat through a conducting medium without perceptible motion of the medium itself.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In physiology, the transfer of nervous influence along a nerve-fiber or of the contractile force from point to point in muscle-tissue.
  • noun. The act of guiding, directing, or leading; guidance.
  • noun. The act of training up.
  • noun. Transmission; conveyance; specifically, in physics, transmission of heat from points of high temperature to points of low temperature, or of electricity from points of high potential to points of low potential, from particle to particle, and to a distance, by the raising of the temperature or potential of intermediate particles, without any sensible motion of them.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of leading or guiding.
  • noun. The act of training up.
  • noun. Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
  • noun. The act of leading or guiding.
  • noun. The act of training up.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the transmission of heat or electricity or sound